The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and BSI have partnered to develop a certification scheme dedicated to the security of cloud services. STAR Certification has been designed as an enhancement to ISO27001 and a response to growing business concerns over the…
From 15th October 2013 – Assent director Robert Clements discusses Data Integrity in the context of BIM (Building Information Modelling) on leading industry news portal BIMCrunch. entry131016-173302
A common attitude towards information security is that responsibility lies with the IT department. While it is true that in many cases IT plays the biggest part in how data is stored and processed, a company’s wider operation should not…
It’s a discussion that I am sure is documented again and again in blogs but when I looked around the office for some simple tasks that could form the basis of a summer-job I was surprised at what I found.…
Calibration When clients ask us to help them implement and maintain a quality management system (ISO 9001) there is one point that polarises opinion. Calibration. Measuring, monitoring, cutting and plotting tools are just some examples of the items that might…
Is it an additional overhead or does it reduce costly incidents? ISO 20000 defines the objective of change management: ”To ensure all changes are assessed, approved, implemented and reviewed in a controlled manner.” It’s important to design a change control process…
The international standard for Information Security ISO 27001 is due for an update this year (2013). entry130813-174453
Social Media has changed how people communicate and express opinions on the internet. In many ways legislation and business is trying to catch up. There are a huge variety of issues to carefully consider around social media, here we look…
Risk Management Consultancy Assent have used twitter to raise awareness of ISO 27001 the Information Security Management System Standard. On 20th May 2013, over the course of the day, Assent’s Lead InfoSec Consultant & Auditor will be tweeting snippets about…
